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The Battle for World Public Opinion

(PUERTA VALLARTA) - Internationally, migration stands out as one of the most heated issues of the times.

Representatives of 146 governments met in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to discuss how public perceptions of migrants figure in the contemporary global political landscape.

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Border Activists Target Dollar Store Chain

An El Paso group is now reaching out to potential allies in other cities as it expands the campaign against Family Dollar’s labor policies.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - For more than an hour, business slowed to a trickle at the Family Dollar store in downtown El Paso.

Chanting slogans and hoisting signs, a few dozen picketers marched in disciplined, circular formation on the sidewalk in front of the popular discount store on Stanton Street.

The Border`s Onion Trails

Part of a special series on border agricultural history and the New Mexico economy. The series was made possible in part by grants from the New Mexico Humanities Council and McCune Charitable Foundation.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - As the summer fades into fall, more than the seasons have changed on the farms of southern New Mexico. For many, the focus of production has changed from sacking onions to harvesting chile peppers.

Border Activists Organize for the Long Haul

“We’re looking to build long-term capacity. The issues won’t go away.” - Emily Carey, ACLU

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - Comprehensive immigration reform might be off the legislative agenda this year. And it remains to be seen how the immigration issue will play out once the November elections are over.

But in different parts of the United States, pro-immigrant rights activists are quietly building networks and digging in for the long haul.

New and Enduring Harvest Festivals

Now known the world over, the Hatch Valley Chile Festival with its iconic long green peppers gives many people their first and perhaps lasting impression of New Mexico, its land and its people.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - As the first gusts of fall break the long, dragging heat of summer, harvest festivals are taking shape everywhere. And in the southern New Mexico borderlands plenty of celebrations are in store. Indisputably the Queen of the Festival, the Hatch Valley Chile Festival kicks off the season this Labor Day weekend.

“We never got big. We never got corporate,” Marcia Nordyke, festival chair, told Frontera NorteSur.

Let a Thousand Border Gardens Blossom

Youth are involved in a growing number of community initiatives in the borderland and Southwest.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Arturo Esparza brought the visitor to the small patch of chile, tomato, eggplant and sunflower rising from the desert earth of Vado, New Mexico. As a summer wind lashed at the garden, scattered thunderstorms punctured the sky. Off to the east, a rainbow broke through the mist blanketing the craggy peaks of the Organ Mountains.

New Mexico State Takes on Immigration Issue

The Las Cruces gathering promises up-to-date information on legislative proposals for addressing the US immigration crisis.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - As the immigration issue continues heating up and shaping US politics in the summer of 2010, New Mexico State University will once again play a role in the debate.

Sponsored by the school’s International Relations Institute and Center for Latin American and Border Studies, a summer institute on immigration will take place on the Las Cruces campus during the month of July.

BP Oil Spill - A Poem

Sure, free access said the BP executives yet the media is denied,

(LOS ANGELES) - For many the BP Oil Spill scandal has become something too large to grasp or properly react to. There is little progress, regardless of what they say, and there is the knowledge of it being an expression of greed, pushing Mother Nature's boundaries.

The lack of containment places wildlife in serious jeopardy, and an endless series of lies are an attempt to offer lame excuses by oil conglomerate BP.

Education News: The Mexican Revolution in El Paso

Asked about parallels between the migrations of 100 years ago and today’s exodus from neighboring Ciudad Juarez, El Paso Prof. Keith Erekson, says specific causes of the dislocations might be different, the terror and trauma suffered by people are similar.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - The role of the Texas border city of El Paso remains one of the little-known stories of the revolutionary upheaval that erupted in Mexico in 1910.

The US city on the Rio Grande was a vital center for many of the plots, intrigues, advances and retreats of different political factions vying for power in Mexico.